TO THE PRESIDIUM OF THE MOSCOW SOVIET

To the Presidium of the Moscow Soviet
Copies to Sorokin, the Provincial Statistics Bureau, the Provincial Council of the National Economy,
and the Provincial Trade Union Council

1. The information presented to me today by Sorokin concerning a 30% reduction raises very serious doubts as to its accuracy.73

2. An equal doubt is raised by the correctness of how the reduction has been carried out in the sense that the wrong groups have been reduced. What should be reduced are enterprises and institutions that are not absolutely necessary.

3. Sorokin's reference to the fact that there is allegedly no information about groups of enterprises and institutions that are not absolutely necessary shows that affairs in the Provincial Statistics Bureau, the Provincial Trade Union Council, and the Provincial Council of the National Economy are in an extremely unsatisfactory state.

I request that precise data and precise explanations be presented for tomorrow's session of the Council of People's Commissars (26. VII. 21).

Lenin

Dictated by telephone
25 July 1921

First published in 1959

in Lenin Collection XXXVI

Printed from the typewritten text